Facebook and Telegram have paid huge number of dollars in fines to Russia
MOSCOW: Social systems administration site Facebook has paid Russia 17 million rubles (29 229,000) in fines.
As per the International News Agency, Facebook was fined by a Russian court for neglecting to eliminate illicit substance, for which the Meta bunch paid a fine of 17 million rubles to Russia.
What’s more, the portable informing application Telegram has additionally paid a fine of 15 million rubles to Russia, however Telegram declined to remark.
In spite of paying such a heavy fine, Facebook is probably going to confront another significant fine. One week from now, Facebook and Google will confront one more claim in a neighborhood court over supposed infringement of Russian law.
For this situation, Facebook could be fined up to 1% of its yearly income in Russia. An endeavor was made to get Facebook to remark looking into it, however the Facebook organization declined to remark.
It ought to be noticed that in October this year, Russia likewise sent law implementation authorities to gather 17 million rubles in fines forced on Facebook.
